| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1807 - 384 pages
...died for thee : O Absalom, my son, my son ! 2 Sam. xviii. 33. no, nor the anguish of Rachel, weening for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not, Matt. ii. 18. No, nothing is capable of conveying an idea of the condition to which the disciples were... | |
| Robert Hall - 1814 - 312 pages
...suffering ; her heart, withered and desolate, admits no other object, cherishes no other hope. It is Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. But, to confine our attention to the number of tha slain, would give us a very inadequate idea of the... | |
| Henry Hunter - 1818 - 376 pages
...of that day, when " in Rama a voice was heard, lamentation and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not." By aiming at too much, the tyrant misses his aim altogether. The vigor of his pursuit exerted in one... | |
| Conduct, George Nicholson - 1819 - 282 pages
...Buffering. Her heart withered and desolate, admits no other object, cherishes no other hope. It is Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not." — Hall's Reflect, on War. " Transport yourselves but in imagination, for one moment, into the field... | |
| Henry Kollock - 1822 - 442 pages
...into tears. " In Rama there was a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning. Rachel, weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not." It would be difficult to find a figure more beautiful and interesting. The circumstances of Rachel's... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...; her heart, withered and desolate, admits no other object, cherishes no other hope. It is Rachel, weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. But, to confine our attention to the number of the slain would give us a very inadequate idea of the... | |
| John Lauris Blake - 1824 - 396 pages
...; her heart, withered and desolate, admits no other object, cherishes no other hope. It is Rachel, weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. 3. But to confine our attention to the number of slain would give us a very inadequate idea of the... | |
| Voltaire - 1824 - 448 pages
...Jeremiah might be fulfilled. A voice is heard in Ramah, a voice of groaning and lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more." These historical words, they observe, were literally fulfilled in the tribe of Benjamin,... | |
| Voltaire - 1824 - 434 pages
...Jeremiah might be fulfilled. A voice is heard in Ramah, a voice of groaning and lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more." These historical words, they observe, were literally fulfilled in the tribe of Benjamin,... | |
| 998 pages
...upon the Jews, under the beautiful personification of Rachel rising from the dead, looking in vain for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not, is adduced by Matthew, as fulfilled in the sorrow which was produced by the massacre of the babes in... | |
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